​Coho Salmon are also known as Silvers. As fry they spend three years in slow moving streams, like Silver Creek which flows past the Alger Community Hall. Then the fry develop into young fish known as smolts. As smolts, they swim to the ocean where they eat and bulk up for 18 months before journeying back to their origin of birth, lay eggs, die, decompose and feed the forest.

Brady Greene monitors Silver and Bear Creek and takes fish counts. Here is his latest record keeping for Steelhead. We post the reports on our Rural Rhythm Revival Blog throughout the year. It is interesting to track Salmon recovery and the effects of drought and flood on fish populations.